This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies going from worst to first and winning the National League pennant. All season long we will take a look back at each game of the 1993 season.

Last Game: Phillies 1, Cubs 3

Phillies 3
Cubs 6

WP: Jose Guzman (2-1)
LP: Curt Schilling (2-1)
SV: Randy Myers (3)

The Phillies suffered back-to-back losses for the first time of the 1993 season when the Chicago Cubs handed them their first series loss of the young season at Wrigley Field. The Cubs got to Curt Schilling early and chased him in the sixth inning as they built a 6-1 lead that would be too big a hole to climb out of.

Heavy rains delayed the start of Tuesday night's Phillies-Reds game for one hour and 20 minutes and they returned to force the game to be suspended in the middle of the ninth inning of a scoreless game. The Phillies and Reds will resume their suspended game on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. The game will pick up right at the bottom of the ninth inning and the series finale will go on as planned at 7:10 p.m. unless the first game runs long.

This is the first suspended game for the Phillies since Game Five of the 2008 World Series. Things turned out pretty well in that one of course, but this 2013 team is in desperate need of a spark on offense. On Tuesday night the Phillies recorded just two singles off of Reds starter Homer Bailey, who struck out 10 Phillies batters. Fortunately for the Phillies the starting pitching of Kyle Kendrick and an inning from Antonio Bastardo was effective in holding the Reds to just two hits.

Former Phillies (Gold Glove) right fielder Bobby Abreu is taking the 2013 season off with the intent on returning to major league ball in 2014, according to MLB Trade Rumors. Before you go thinking about a potential return to the Phillies, think again.

Abreu is 39 years old and his batting average has steadily declined over the past four seasons since being traded away from Philadelphia in 2006. Rather than get older, the Phillies still need to get younger and improve the level of play defensively in the outfield. So scratch Abreu as a potential Phillie in 2014 off the list right now.

But have you ever wondered what happened to the prospects acquired in the trade with the New York Yankees in exchange for Abreu?

I dug in to Baseball Reference to find out.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies going from worst to first and winning the National League pennant. All season long we will take a look back at each game of the 1993 season.

Last Game: Phillies 9, Reds 2

Phillies 1
Cubs 3

WP: Mike Morgan (1-2)
LP: Terry Mulholland (2-1)
SV: Randy Myers (2)

Fresh off a home sweep of the Cincinnati Reds and a 5-1 home stand at Veterans Stadium, the Phillies took to the road to visit the friendly confines of Wrigley Field. For the second time in a week the Phillies and Cubs squared off in NL East action and after a series full of offense a week before, there was some anticipation for some classic offensive showings between these two once again. There would be plenty of fireworks to come in this series but the series opener was anything but, with Terry Mulholland taking his first loss of the year in a 3-1 defeat.

Image via Ben Revere on Twitter.

There are some days when it just seems as though baseball does not matter much. Yesterday was one of those days. Hours after multiple explosions went off near the finish line at the Boston Marathon, killing three (and rising in all likelihood) and inuring many more, the Phillies opened a three-game road series in Cincinnati, hoping to build off of a winning series in Miami over the weekend.

Baseball has served this country as a release, an escape from the tortures of real life and the sadness that can come with it. Baseball generally is there for us in troubled times. That was the case yesterday as the Phillies and Reds went on with a sense of normalcy.

Cliff Lee was once again in command throughout most of the night. Ben Revere made a catch worthy of play of the year consideration. Chase Utley hit a two-run home run off the bench to tie the game up before the bullpen struggled to keep the game within reach before the bats had to face Aroldis Chapman. When all was said and done, the Phillies went down to the score of 4-2, a somewhat ironic score on the day the baseball world was set to celebrate Jackie Robinson.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies going from worst to first and winning the National League pennant. All season long we will take a look back at each game of the 1993 season.

Last Game: Phillies 3, Cubs 0

Reds 4
Phillies 5

WP: Jose DeLeon (2-0)
LP: Steve Foster (0-2)
SV: Mitch Williams (4)

The Phillies continued with their hot start to the 1993 season by taking an early lead, blowing it and getting it back in the series opener against the visiting Cincinnati Reds. Mitch Williams picked up his fourth save and reliever Jose DeLeon picked up his second win of the season on a day that saw Lenny Dykstra do everything he could to give the Phillies their major league leading sixth win of the season.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies going from worst to first and winning the National League pennant. All season long we will take a look back at each game of the 1993 season.

Last Game: Phillies 5, Cubs 4

Cubs 0
Phillies 3

WP: Curt Schilling (2-0)
LP: Jose Guzman (0-2)

Looking to capture their second straight series victory to start the season, the Phillies sent Curt Schilling to the mound for a businessperson's special at Veterans Stadium. As he would do so many times in 1993, Schilling delivered with a standout performance, pitching a complete game four-hitter as the Phillies used some early offense to set the pace once again for a 3-0 victory.

It felt like "hittin' season" early Wednesday night as Chase Utley hit a two-run home run to dead center field for the second time this season and Domonic Brown launched a massive three-run home run to the 300 level down the right field line at Citizens Bank Park. The five-run outburst against Mets starter Jeremy Hefner was enough for the Phillies to pick up 7-3 victory, bringing the Phillies to within one win of the .500 mark. The game was delayed by a brief 27-minute rain delay and Kyle Kendrick labored through six innings to pick up his first win of the season.

"We're scoring a lot of runs," Kendrick said after the game. "It's nice on the starters. We've just got to keep our team in the game. But heading down to Miami, we're feeling good right now after winning the series."

The Phillies entered this series with the Mets having already blown two separate early 4-0 leads against the Kansas City Royals. Against the Mets, the Phillies found a way to hold on to their early leads to pick up their first series victory of the season.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies going from worst to first and winning the National League pennant. All season long we will take a look back at each game of the 1993 season.

Last Game: Cubs 11, Phillies 7

Cubs 4
Phillies 5

WP: Terry Mulholland (2-0)
LP: Mike Morgan (0-2)
SV: Mitch Williams (3)

A day after the Phillies and Cubs combined for 19 runs in the Veterans Stadium home opener, the NL East rivals got off to another fast start. Terry Mulholland picked up his second win in as many starts and the Phillies once again sat atop the NL East standings with a 4-1 record. They would not be knocked out of first place for the remainder of the season.